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The FERC Report concludes that power could be interrupted to as many 130 million Americans for several years, while the NERC Report concludes that the most likely worst-case scenario is a blackout lasting hours or days.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

Important to note, the NERC report has no data to back it up, its basically utility company guys sitting around bullshitting about the problem and how to downplay it.

Quoting: Isis One

Which basically means that if FERC report is ok, then power infrastructure will be affected for several years.

Thanks OP, I hope the government or the utility commision has started changing out some of these older high voltage transformers. I live in the Northeast, so I'm kind of screwed if we get a record breaking solar storm/flare. Glad I have friends elsewhere.

Quoting: Isis One

It concerns the world, not only US and Canada. Wake up.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

No need to be rude Russia, this article only addresses us and Canada. Why don't you post something that discusses the world and I'll respond accordingly.

Spread the word, change the collective conscious......THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING TO GO AROUND

When you are undisciplined, the universe is extremely forgiving and when you are disciplined, the universe is extremely generous. Me

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. Andre Gide

Thanks OP, I hope the government or the utility commision has started changing out some of these older high voltage transformers. I live in the Northeast, so I'm kind of screwed if we get a record breaking solar storm/flare. Glad I have friends elsewhere.

Quoting: Isis One

It concerns the world, not only US and Canada. Wake up.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

No need to be rude Russia, this article only addresses us and Canada. Why don't you post something that discusses the world and I'll respond accordingly.

Quoting: Isis One

Well it says that even British Parliament arrives at the scientific consensus that a great geomagnetic storm would cause widespread damage to power grid transformers, result in a protracted blackout lasting months or years, and have catastrophic consequences for society.

Thanks OP, I hope the government or the utility commision has started changing out some of these older high voltage transformers. I live in the Northeast, so I'm kind of screwed if we get a record breaking solar storm/flare. Glad I have friends elsewhere.

Quoting: Isis One

It concerns the world, not only US and Canada. Wake up.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

No need to be rude Russia, this article only addresses us and Canada. Why don't you post something that discusses the world and I'll respond accordingly.

Quoting: Isis One

Well it says that even British Parliament arrives at the scientific consensus that a great geomagnetic storm would cause widespread damage to power grid transformers, result in a protracted blackout lasting months or years, and have catastrophic consequences for society.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

Ok, primarily discusses US as in, I only read material from primarily inter-departmental US agencies.

Spread the word, change the collective conscious......THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING TO GO AROUND

When you are undisciplined, the universe is extremely forgiving and when you are disciplined, the universe is extremely generous. Me

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. Andre Gide

Thanks OP, I hope the government or the utility commision has started changing out some of these older high voltage transformers. I live in the Northeast, so I'm kind of screwed if we get a record breaking solar storm/flare. Glad I have friends elsewhere.

Quoting: Isis One

It concerns the world, not only US and Canada. Wake up.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

No need to be rude Russia, this article only addresses us and Canada. Why don't you post something that discusses the world and I'll respond accordingly.

Quoting: Isis One

Well it says that even British Parliament arrives at the scientific consensus that a great geomagnetic storm would cause widespread damage to power grid transformers, result in a protracted blackout lasting months or years, and have catastrophic consequences for society.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

This info has been mainstream for years. Even Yahoo has had articles about such a scenario. Thanks for reminding us about it, OP, but it's hardly breaking news.

So the only people who will survive will be the Extreme Preppers seen on TV and the Bunker government people. Why is there never any mention of building bunkers for the American People I wonder? Trillions are spent. Couldn't there have been caverns and enough preps for ten years in em? Thanks OP.

in the book the lights go out permanently and how society will be effected..............most people die within one year.

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WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN has a Ph.D. from Purdue University with specializations in Military History and the History of Technology.

-Amazon

I have studied technology development/history from a broad perspective too, and I was writing fiction on this same theme before Revolution came out.

The issue is that we aren't building on top of our old infrastructure, we're replacing it with new, far more delicate systems that are ever more efficient, but also easier to disrupt. Think of that thumb drive that can now fit all the books in your library on it in text form. Pretty cool in one way, but on the other hand its hard to accidentally drop that library in your toilet.

We're building a society that can fit in the palm of somebody's hand, that can be massively disrupted through small events.

The FERC Report concludes that power could be interrupted to as many 130 million Americans for several years, while the NERC Report concludes that the most likely worst-case scenario is a blackout lasting hours or days.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

Important to note, the NERC report has no data to back it up, its basically utility company guys sitting around bullshitting about the problem and how to downplay it.

Quoting: Isis One

Which basically means that if FERC report is ok, then power infrastructure will be affected for several years.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

What's coming will make life w/o electricity like a walk in the park in comparison.

They are putting this out there for the public but the public don't have a clue and make the connection.

Weekly TV series: Revolution

In that series the lights go out and they allege they never knew why?

Book: One Second After by Forstren

in the book the lights go out permanently and how society will be effected..............most people die within one year.

When you then consider the Georgia Guidestones where population is set at 500 million globally.......

well the quickest way to do that is to turn out the lights.

MOST PEOPLE WILL BE DEAD WITHIN ONE YEAR.

Are you getting ready for the lights to go out?

Seems that is a promise coming.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 15256858

One Second After: Highly recommend.

Thanks for the post OP, enlightening to say the least.

"May your electricity go out a second before the shit hits the fan." -Conspiracy Theorist's Blessing

”Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… Sacredly, Secretly, and Silently … and those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’, will respond.”

Colossians 1: 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Thanks OP, I hope the government or the utility commision has started changing out some of these older high voltage transformers. I live in the Northeast, so I'm kind of screwed if we get a record breaking solar storm/flare. Glad I have friends elsewhere.

Quoting: Isis One

It concerns the world, not only US and Canada. Wake up.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1492246

Frankly, the loss of electrical power and modern telecommunications worldwide would be catastrophic culturally, in the sense of the likely failure of effective social leadership. Global life-expectancy figures would likely become inverted in favour of third-world societies who are closest to traditional subsistence economies. Frankly, the UK needs to re-institute the Home Guard as a respected volunteer body, and rewarded with the right to bear arms,with the aim of enlarging its membership to assume as much as possible of the functions of our present armed forces, Police, Fire and Ambulance services, UK Border Agency and Civil Service in general. I would like us to have the ruggedly independent defence posture of the Swiss.

Otherwise, in the event of the next Carrington event, we are going to wind up with the next best doom to a Zombie Apocalypse.

Of course... it could be days, weeks or years before something like this could happen.... but I expect it will happen one day.

There are two risks that result from the introduction of GICs to the bulk powersystem:* Damage to bulk power system assets, typically associated withtransformers, and* Loss of reactive power support, which could lead to voltage instability andpower system collapse.

Restoration times of the power system from these two risks [damage to transformers andvoltage instability] are significantly different. For example, restoration times from systemcollapse due to voltage instability would be a matter of hours to days, while replacingtransformers requires long-lead times (a number of months) to replace or move sparesinto place, unless they are in a nearby location. Therefore, the failure of a large number oftransformers would have considerable impacts on large portions of the system:'

See the Chart on page 15 - it show all of the EAST as far as Indiana and Oregon and Washington for the areas that will have a Effects on the U.S. Power Grid

Restoration times of the power system from these two risks [damage to transformers andvoltage instability] are significantly different. For example, restoration times from systemcollapse due to voltage instability would be a matter of hours to days, while replacingtransformers requires long-lead times (a number of months) to replace or move sparesinto place, unless they are in a nearby location. Therefore, the failure of a large number oftransformers would have considerable impacts on large portions of the system:'